Category: Data Management

July 24, 2018

If you buy one of the new 2018 MacBook Pros, you’d best back up your data, since recovery will be much harder than it was before if your logic board fails. It turns out Apple removed a data-recovery port from […]

July 17, 2018

The big data landscape has exploded in an incredibly short amount of time. It was just in 2013 that the term “big data” was added to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Fewer than five years later, 2.5 quintillion […]

July 13, 2018

According to a recent report from IDC, “worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow from nearly $122 billion in 2015 to more than $187 billion in 2019, an increase of more than 50 percent over the five-year […]

July 6, 2018

Digital transformation is ushering in a new era of hybrid IT– a combination of both public and private cloud – that allows businesses to innovate while meeting their own unique organizational needs. Yet, a hybrid IT environment can create complexity […]

June 4, 2018

A recent press release states, “NICE Actimize, a NICE business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, has expanded ActimizeWatch, its secure cloud-based analytics optimization solution, to apply managed machine learning and automation for laser-sharp Anti-Money Laundering detection with […]

May 8, 2018

April 13 marks the day of one of the greatest success stories I can think of that began with the unthinkable. The crew of Apollo 13 was completing a routine check when, a day shy of walking on the moon, […]

May 3, 2018

Municipal governments produce and commission large amounts of data and information every day. Making these datasets available to the public enables these institutions to become more transparent and accountable to their citizens. By encouraging the use and free distribution of […]

April 18, 2018

Moving terabytes or even petabytes of data to the cloud is a daunting task. But it is important to look beyond the number of bytes. You probably know that your applications are going to behave differently when accessed in the […]

April 2, 2018

One of the original goals of EF Core was to develop a model wherein both SQL and NoSQL style databases could be used with little or no change to the code. Microsoft is taking the first steps towards that goal […]

March 1, 2018

The term “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” is often thrown about whenever someone is upset with Microsoft. Superficially it describes any attempt by a technology company to attract users of a competitor’s product, but the actual strategy is more complicated than […]